Improved sugar-cutter



KINZLER 6L ROSEBUCK.Y

Sugar Cutter.

No. 27,135. Patented Feb. 14, 1860.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES KINZLER AND XVM. ROSEBUGK, 0F NEXV YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVED SUGAR-CUTTER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 27, l 35, dated February 14, 1560.

To {LZZ whom t nutj/ concern:

Be it known that we, CHARLES KINZLER and WILIIEIM Rosnnnok, both of the city of New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and improved machine for cutting loaf-sugar in square and regular pieces; and we hereby declare that the following is a full and exa-et description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to the letters of reference Inarked thereon.

Figure l represents partly a longitudinal section and partly an outside View ofthe 1nachine, and Fig. H represents a orosssection, Fig. III, a top view of the machine.

The nature ol" our invention consists in an arrangen'ient for cutting loaf-sugar into systematic, regular, and equal pieces. For this purpose the loaf-sugar is first, by means of circular or other saws, cut into slices or slabs of about one inch or three-quarters of an inch in thickness. The slices or slabs are then brought int-o the machine to be cut into small morsels. On a table, A, plates B B are xed capable of n'ioving. The central parts of these plates are provided with blades or knives o crossing each other at right angles and forming squares of a size equal kto the required size of the morsels, and forming a grating in the central part of those plates B B, and so arranged that the cutting-edges in both plates correspond with each other. Vhen said plates are moved toward cach other, after the slices or slabs of sugar have been introduced, the slices are subjected thereby to a pressure and are eut or cracked on both sides into the rcquired morsels. Behindthe plates B B frames C C are firmly fastened to the table or frame A. and provided with pins or projections m, hav ing flat plates n on their ends, which enter the hooks between the knives o when the plates B are receding, so as to push off any morsels which may remain fast in the grating or between theknives. The plates B B are moved toward and from each other by means of rods p p, attached to levers q, operated from the shaft V, or any other Inechanieal arrangement.

Instead ofmoving the two plates B B,as above described, one ofthe frames C may be attached to the opposite plate B, and those two moved together, while the other frame C and plate B remain stationary, by which arrangement the same results will be obtained.

Vhat we claim as our invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The arrangement to two plates `provided with knives forming square openings, and capable of moving toward and from each other, for the purpose of cutting or cracking the slabs of sugar into regular morsels, in combination with fixed frames provided with points which enter the openings in said plates when the latter are receding for thepurpose ofpushing the morsels or pieces which may adhere to the knives out of the holes, and operating together in the manner and for the purpose substantially described and specified.

CHARLES KINZLER. TILHELM ROSEBUGK. XVitnesses:

HENRY E. RoEDEu, J .IMEs H. DAvIDsoN. 

